Report: Apple Can Only Release Half Of Its Planned iPhone X Shipments

Trending News: Want An iPhone X? You Probably Won't Get One Before Next Year

Long Story Short

Apple will only be able to release half of the iPhone Xs that it planned to when it officially becomes available on November 3.

Long Story

When the iPhone X (pronounced 'iPhone Ten') launched in September, the hype was real. But that hype has quickly shifted to hope.

Hope that one day, someday, people might get to hold the $999 home buttonless tenth anniversary iPhone in real life following reports that Apple will only be able to ship 20 million units before Christmas — half of what it had planned.

The report came via Nikkei on Tuesday and in an interview with Buzzfeed, Apple CEO Tim Cook couldn't confidently refute the claim.

"We'll see what happens," Cook said. "But we'll be working as hard as possible to make as many as possible."

The snag in production is due to the facial recognition software, according to Nikkei's report. Apple couldn't work out the kinks in assembling the face authentication module until September and it only has the capacity to make 10 million a month.

Surprised? You shouldn't be. During the September launch the facial recognition software embarrassingly didn't work properly in front of millions of people worldwide — so we could have easily seen this coming (the iPhone X, on the other hand, probably would have missed it).

So, you still want one of those first iPhone Xs? You have two options.

1: Log on to preorder the phone at 3:01 a.m. E.S.T. and pray you can get one.

Or 2: It's tent city outside of an Apple store for you before the November 3 launch.

Seriously, you should probably head to an Apple Store right now if you want to be sure.

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